Nursing Processes
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- The theory that states all living organisms are seen as interacting, unified wholes that are more than the sums of their parts is called
- Holism
- The tendency of the body to maintain a state of balance or equilibrium while continually changing; a mechanism in which deviations from normal are sensed and counteracted is known as
- Homeostasis
- The "holistic" nurse must keep the _____ in mind when assessing one part of an individual and consider how that part _____ to all others.
- whole, relates
- What is Abraham Maslow famous for?
- Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
- What are Maslow's five basic human needs in order from bottom of the pyramid to the top?
- Physiologic, Safety and Security, Love and Belonging, Self-Esteem, Self-actualization
- What did Kalish add to Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
- A Stimulation Level
- Define compensatory.
- counter balancing
- What is a closed system?
- a system that does not exchange energy, matter, or information with its environment
- A system that exchanges energy, matter, and information is what kind of system?
- an open system
- An imaginary line that differentiates one system form another system or a system from its environment is called a.
- boundary
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What is Psychologic homeostasis?
emotional or psychologic balance or state of mental well-being - the emotional or psychologic balance or state of mental well-being
- All living systems are closed systems. TRUE or FALSE
- FALSE - Living systems are open systems because they depend on a continous exchange of energy with the environment.
- Negative feedback stimulates change. TRUE or FALSE
- FALSE - Negative feedback inhibits change; positive feedback stimulates change
- In the digestive system what would be considered the throughtput mechanism?
- Digestion
- What factors influence the the prioritization of a need?
- The person's ethnocultural standards, external and internal stimuli, and self determined priorities.
- Madeleine Leininger said this is the essence of nusing and dominant, distinctive, and unifying feature of nursing.
- Caring
- A person who doubts the existence of God or a supreme being or believes the existence of God has not been proven is known as an
- Agnostic
- A person that denies the existenc of God is an
- Atheist
- Polytheism is the belief in one God. TRUE or FALSE
- FALSE - Polytheism is the beleif in more than one God; Monotheism is the beleif in only one God.